ThadMattasagoblin

May 25th, 2017 at 3:57 AM ^

I guess put him back at TE or maybe he can coach WRs with Pep. We're going to have multiple guys at a position regardless of who we hire. You probably only want one guy at RB and DL. I like the proven coaching ability of the guys we have in Pep, Frey, Mattison etc. I do think we need more guys like Partridge who can recruit since we lost Fisch and Wheatley.

BigPuppy4

May 25th, 2017 at 8:11 AM ^

I think moving him around is a great idea. Being only a couple years out of high school, he is still learning the college game. Giving him experience at several different positions will put him in the best postion to move to a coordinator position in the future. Many of the other position coaches are over qualified for their position and can help with all of the overlap.

MichiganStan

May 25th, 2017 at 3:19 AM ^

I'd be all for it

I kind of feel like Jay at RB coach is not a good fit. Not sure what youd do with jay though

Im sure it would help us in recruiting if we had a coach with actual RB coaching expierence. The high 4-5 star running backs would surely like to work with a coach with expierence over one without it

 

umbig11

May 25th, 2017 at 5:44 AM ^

Not too long ago, the plan was to hire a WR coach. However, JH has said that he will hire the best coach available. I wouldn't be surprised if he came from the NFL ranks.

war-dawg69

May 25th, 2017 at 8:21 AM ^

The one position we have not been able to reel in the top end recruits is running back. It may be by ranking only as evans was undervalued obviously. I really don't know if this is because of who is our coach is at that position. I also dont know how good of a recruiter Jay Harbaugh is. I do know he is the head coaches son and thus will never be given a pink slip. We barely missed on Harris, but if we could somehow reel in Noah Cain in the 2019 class I don't think anyone will be concerned who are running backs coach is. I also think Turner this year is going to be a good one and his ranking will only go up and he is allready in the espn 300.

jabberwock

May 25th, 2017 at 8:45 AM ^

is one of the least important holes to fill.

A good coach, a great recruiter, etc. etc.  That should be the priority.

I think 5* running backs will be more likely to come to michigan when we have an offensive line made up of better players, that make holes 3 & 4 stars can run though.

We've had (& still have) highly ranked running backs on this team that still haven't done shit.

It's ALL about the O-line.

DrMantisToboggan

May 25th, 2017 at 11:04 AM ^

Jeremy Langford was rated outside of the Top 1000 on the composite.

Leveon Bell was rated outside of the Top 1800 on the composite.

Javon Ringer was rated  a 3 star and the 13th player in Ohio.

 

Build and coach the OL and any running back with D1 offers can become All-Conference. 

As you said, the RB position is almost entirely dependent on the OL.

Arlo Pear

May 25th, 2017 at 12:04 PM ^

Exactly, it's funny how good that line became when Emmitt got behind. Before that they were a bunch of castoffs. Not to mention he missed two games after the first Superbowl in a holdout, they lost both and couldn't run the ball.

Nuckin Futs

May 25th, 2017 at 1:36 PM ^

fwiw....the 10th coach will be Jordan Kovacs. I played golf with one of his former coaches 2 weeks ago...obviously nothing more than I know a guy who knows a guy, but sounded very sure.